Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2004
Mesoscale Discussion 1186
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 11, 2004, 3:06 AM CDT for 37 counties in Kansas; Bates County, Cass County, Vernon County, Missouri; 8 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 84 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 11, 2004, 3:06 AM CDT (08:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 2004, 4:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 84 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 48 counties
Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Elk County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Geary County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Labette County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Linn County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, Miami County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Morris County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Osage County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Bates County, MO, Cass County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Alfalfa County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Grant County, OK, Kay County, OK, Noble County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Osage County, OK, Washington County, OK
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 126 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1172 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -110 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 653 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 234 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 7:58 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Chase, Clay, Cloud, Decatur, Dickinson and 33 more | 92 min |
| Jun 11, 4:55 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Doniphan, Nemaha | 95 min |
| Jun 11, 5:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butler, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood, Wilson and 1 more | 93 min |
| Jun 11, 5:18 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Comanche, Cotton, Jackson, Tillman | 87 min |
| Jun 11, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Comanche, Cotton, Jackson, Tillman | 5 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2004Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2004Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 2004Every mesoscale discussion in 2004
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.